Hyperlink Roundup: DID YOU GUYS HEAR ABOUT FACEBOOK?!

What a week, especially if you were an early employee and/or investor in Facebook. Since we've all experienced Facebook overload this week, there's only one item in the Hyperlink Roundup. You're welcome.

Many of us never leave our cubicles or offices for lunch. And if we do, we simply bring out lunches right back to our cubicles or offices. In Europe there's a movement... literally.

Lunch Beat is a craze that's sweeping Sweden. It's creator, Molly Range (I mean is that not the coolest name you've heard this Spring?) aims to energize and excite participants, breaking them from their mundane workdays.

Partly she hoped a high-energy club experience would make people feel energized in the afternoon, instead of soporific from lunch. Partly she was irritated by the buzzwords proliferating her industry like “playfulness” and “community.” Why couldn’t someone put that jargon into practice?

In case you haven't heard, it's a big week for Alabama beer, furthering Birmingham's role as a beer city. Weld has an incredible piece on the continued explosion of Birmingham's newest "industry." Quoting Michael Sellers, one of the co-owners of Good People:

“Colorado’s had 30 years, 40 years to develop their culture. We’ve essentially done it in four. So, they got to experience their growing pains over a more drawn-out, slow growth process, whereas I think ours are going to be a lot more compacted.

“I think the beer culture in Alabama is heading in the right direction. Obviously, with anything that grows fast, there’s going to be some downside, but I think right now everybody’s doing the right things and keeping craft beer the way it should be.”

Your Band-Aid Might Not Be Aiding

I had a big one on my neck this week. It's a long story. Slate tells us that some dressing might be in vain.

Most people have been told at some point that a wound has to “breathe.” This old wives’ tale is probably based on a phenomenon known as “tissue maceration”—when moisture turns the skin around a wound eggshell-white and prune-like. This can result from a bandage that is left on too long, or from an excess of fluid seeping from a wound. But, as a general rule, the best dressings seal the wound off from the outside world.

For some reason though, there’s a little more hope tied to the most recent effort to bring back professional football to Birmingham – especially since its tied to the return of the USFL – sort of. Who knows, it could even mean a return of the Birmingham Stallions.

Wired created a list of 100 Geeks You Should Be Following on Twitter. I don't consider myself a geek, therefore I'm not offended that I'm not included. But if you yourself are a geek and were not included, well, you probably should be offended.

Brussels Express

A 19 minute documentary about bike messengers in Brussels, the most congested city in Europe with only 4% cycling traffic.